With the population booming inside a predator-proof fence, conservationists have set the bilbies free. But can they survive on the outside?

With the population booming inside a predator-proof fence, conservationists have set the bilbies free. But can they survive on the outside?

Prior to the project, the native species had been locally extinct in outback NSW for decades after they were wiped out by pests.

"Les bilbies sont l’une des espèces marsupiales indigènes les plus populaires d’Australie, mais malheureusement aussi l’une de ses espèces les plus menacées, donc ceux qui s’occupent des bilbies sont ...

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Fifty ‘founder’ bilbies were released in fenced breeding area in 2019 with the aim of establishing first wild population there in a century Efforts to reintroduce bilbies in the far south-west of New South Wales are showing signs of success, with numbers climbing to almost 2,000, seven years after the first breeding trial at Mallee Cliffs national park. Fifty “founder” bilbies, including 30 from Thistle Island off the coast of South Australia, were released in a fenced breeding area in 2019 with the aim of establishing a wild population in the Mallee Cliffs habitat for the first time in a century. Continue reading...

Experts say marsupial mole DNA shows they are closely linked to bandicoots and bilbies and their ancestors likely evolved in a rainforest environment